Bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51114 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Mimusops elengi | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Bark | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | BarkUse: MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Circulatory System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 4 E 9 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1879 | Donor Notes | Dymock Dr, Bombayx0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: The bark is red woody and fibrous, and has a thin grey epidermis studded with lichens, its general appearance when dry reminds one of the red cinchona, but the inner surface is marked with whitish stains as if it was mildewed; on breaking t, he bark these stains are seen to penetrate the substance to some depth, they are caused by the drying of the milky juice with which the tree abounds. Upon soaking a piece of dry bark in water it becomes coated with mucilage, and a milky fluid can be squ, eezed out from its freshly cut surface. Microscopic examination discovers no distinctive characteristics. Wowlee bark is bitter and astringent. I have no experience of its use. Mimusops kanki, the adams fruit of Goa has nuch the same properties. The, olive shaped berries of both trees are edible. | ||||